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Catenatives - correct answer ✔✔words that function as a single unit
ex: want to, gotta, hafta
- count as one morpheme
Diminutives - correct answer ✔✔form of a noun used that refers to something small
ex: doggie, kittie
-count as one morpheme
tense - correct answer ✔✔marking of the verb, such as past or future, that relates to speech
time in which events occur
Counted as one morpheme - correct answer ✔✔recurrence of word for emphasis: "no no no!"
compound word: birthday, cowboy
proper names: Dora the Explorer
irregular past tense: went, age, got
diminutives: doggie, mommy
auxiliary verbs and catenatives: is, have, go
irregular plurals: men, feet, teeth
ritualized reduplications: night-night, choo-choo
Counted as two morphemes - correct answer ✔✔possessive nouns: baby's, Tom's
plural nouns: kitties, dogs, car
, third person singular present tense verbs: he walks, baby eats
regular past tense verbs: walked, jumped, played
present progressive verbs: walking, eating, playing
Not counted as morphemes - correct answer ✔✔dysfluencies: c-c-c-candy (one)
filllers: um, oh, ah
Anything in a parenthesis
declaratives: - correct answer ✔✔a statement, label or description of something
interrogative - correct answer ✔✔a question, marked by a question or a word, yes/no question
form,or intonation as a questions
imperative - correct answer ✔✔a demand, usually starts with a verb
Ex) give me a cookie
negative - correct answer ✔✔a sentence with no, not, or -n't
MLU guidelines - correct answer ✔✔total number of morphemes, then divide by the total
number of utterances
true word - correct answer ✔✔to be considered a true word, it must be:
-phonetically related to an adult word
-used consistently by the child
-occur in the presence of a referent or meaning
-have a one-to-one match to a specific meaning (symbolic)